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List:       koffice
Subject:    AW: kword templates
From:       "Ferdinand Gassauer" <f.gassauer () aon ! at>
Date:       2002-02-18 8:59:19
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Thomas Zander [mailto:zander@microweb.nl]
> Gesendet am: Montag, 18. Februar 2002 09:10
> An: Ferdinand Gassauer
> Cc: koffice@mail.kde.org
> Betreff: Re: kword templates
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:17:42PM +0100, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I started to create new templates for kword.
> >
> > Some remarks/questions
> >
> > 1) How to organize templates ?
> > by format - IMHO the better solution
> >
> > one tab for
> > A6,A5,A4,A3,..US legal, US letter....
> > and on each tab (example):
> > A4 portrait, A4 landscape, A4 portrait + footer, A4 landscape +
> footer ...
> >
> > Propably I'd like to make different tabs for styles with different font
> > sizes for standard fonts.
> > A4-8, A4-10, A4-12, ...
> > and for different fonts
> > A4-8-arial, A4-8-charter ....
> >
> > If ever we are going to supply more templates it would be nice
> to create a
> > template selector, a combination of font and paper attributes
>
> NO!
> Templates should not be used for the most simple thing which can
> be done in
> KWord with a couple of mouse clicks.
> People will use the same font all the time (as default) so they
> would have to
> set that font in the configuration dialog of KWord and be done with it.
>
> Templates are meant for personal styles and things like 'fax form',
> 'Envelope B123' etc.  Don't add lots of templates that make
> searching for this kind
> of stuff hard.
Hmm!
That was only an example what could be supplied.
I also can think of nationalized templates, which won't go through i18n.
* Fax form in english, french, german ....
* Business letter

So either we decide to suply the minimum templates or we have to decide on a
reasonable structure.

BTW I do not agree that setting up templates is that easy.
Example:
The footer should contain:
- left: directory+filename
- middle: Page x of y
- rigth: Date Time

For this it is necessary (probably not the easiest solution) to
* insert a table with 1 row and 3 columns in the footer
* adjust the font size
* insert the 5-6 variables
* adjust the allignment to middle and rigth respectively
* save the template (A4+portrait+footer)

IMHO not only novices will fail to do that.

Now change the page orientation to landscape. (kword 1.1 with KDE 2.2.2)
The table in the footer does not automaticaly extend to the new width of the
page and looks ugly.
So it is necessary to save A4 + landscape + footer template to avoid
repeating adjustments.


BTW
Is it possible to define a "company wide" template directory somewhere on a
LAN/WAN?
This migth be a useful option for teleworkers.

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